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Using ghostscript and ImageMagick instead of MRTG
I tried to set up MRTG again this morning. What does MRTG do, exactly? As far as I can tell, it collects samples, stores them in a text file, and draws horrible looking graphs from them. So I'm looking at rolling my own graphs using (1) Perl to collect samples and turn them into ps, (2) GhostScript to produce some high resolution image, and (3) ImageMagick to rescale and compress them.

Something like this:

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